Improvisational cooking

[torquill]

I feel like I've really taken the training wheels off when it comes to cooking. Given some basic ingredients and a well-stocked kitchen, I can generally make something pretty tasty, and I seem to do it at least once a week now. I figured this week's lunch would be chicken of some sort, probably a chicken salad. My eye roamed a little at the grocery store, and I settled on potatoes. Fine, chicken and diced red potatoes. With.... yogurt works as a good binder. I wanted warm spices, because it's kind of chilly out there, so that means cinnamon, cloves, cumin, mild chile powder; this was starting to sound like a curry chicken salad. That's what it turned out to be, with lots of black pepper, cumin, turmeric, ancho powder, cinnamon, and a breath of cloves; I didn't feel like fenugreek, which is what I would have gotten with standard yellow curry powder. The yogurt I use (Trader Joe's) is quite tart, which rounded it out nicely. Recipe? Where we're going, we don't need recipes. :)